Editorial: A Night at the Circus | NSTA

Editorial: A Night at the Circus

Journal of College Science Teaching – July/August 2007

Student evaluations of faculty teaching are imperfect and incomplete, but they are here to stay. Students’ ignorance of what it takes to do our jobs would be mostly a source of amusement, except for the fact that many—perhaps all colleges and universities—ask these same young people to assess our performance. They are wonderful young people, but they understand neither the process of teaching nor the implications hovering at the tips of their number-two pencils.

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